Many thanks to all the allied military forces who fought so hard to defend their countries so that those like myself born after the war would be able to enjoy the freedoms and live a great life in our countries. God Bless all those men and women who are still with us and those that gave their lives. Thank you from my heart.
I want to thank all the allied military for your service and to your countrys you help defend. My family and I have had a good life. I just hope and pray that my grand children will be able to say the same thing in 60 yrs from now. The world is a scary place at this time in history and hopefully our ppl can change it. May God bless you all who served.
What gets me everytime I see how many of these made it home is the sheer guts and brute force it took to keep these aircraft in the air. No computers to help, often control sufraces wrecked and yet so many of these aircrew and their planes came home.
Amazing that these planes made it home in that condition. What piloting skills and well made planes could do. Modern planes seem to go down with only a fraction of what we have just seen. Thanks to all those who served.
It's plain to see the aircraft that lost crewmembers. It's all terribly sad because they were all young men with their lives ahead of them. I've met a few former servicemen. One was an RAF navigator with titanium knees as a result of a bombing mission over Germany. Another was the mother of a friend and the mother fought at Stalingrad.
Interesting video, thank you. My granddad helped repair these when they got back. IF they got back.. (a bit of feedback. Maybe give us a little longer to look at the picture before moving on to the next so we can take in more detail. But otherwise good job. :) )
Excellent video really showing the pounding various American (& a couple British) aircraft took from German FlaK (short for 'Flieger abwher Kanonen' = 'Flyer defense Cannons') Not nit picking but the B-17 at 3:12 , the damage here is not from FlaK but from a collision with a German Me-109, the propeller slicing through the fuselage, almost cutting the plane in half. This plane was very lucky to make it home, but then again, so were a lot of the other ones.
Flak gunners shot at formations, not planes. Law of averages says that there will be some direct hits. Spreading shrapnel through the formation to hit multiple planes was the primary goal. A direct hit could easily be less effective than an air burst in the midst of the formation.
so many things wrong with the game, good thing its still beta for example, i shoot at a b17, thing explodes...i was shooting through the tail gunner in FRB, the plane exploded before the gunner died -__-
the English fought the Germans for nearly 2 years pretty much on there own the actual fighting I am talking about yet there is NO pictures of any RAF bombers and Fighters on your video sad to say the yanks did not win the war all by them selves but some-times they infer it.
fred wilson wrong..about a minute in..an RAF plane...The Brits did a great job with what they had..Sadly this is without alot of whats now the UK.help..You have to admit it was the USA..and Russia turned the tide of European ww2..
Well, so where are your pictures? In the Royal Archives, of course. That's where you'll see them. In the US these pictures are almost in the public domain. Only a few years after the war ended, a documentary of 25 chapters called, "Victory At Sea" was available on our TV and I watched it regularly with my Dad. Many of those chapters show battle damage to planes; he would often tell me, "that's what I saw all the time." I suspect your military didn't put much time or effort into documenting what happened; we had Combat Cameramen whose job it was to take still pictures and 16 mm film of all that happened. Some of that, after passing the view of censors, was shown in movie theaters. People wanted to see what was happening overseas. They weren't war crazy; they just wanted to see as much as possible. It was part of keeping our civilians in touch with what was happening, and it helped stir on the effort to produce the weapons and materiel of waging the war. If you take that as winning the war by ourselves, I feel sorry for you. We were Allies and we won the war together. Did you expect to see films and pictures of Aussies and New Zealanders? Your attitude is in need of some adjustment. Sour grapes, I think it's called.
JosephK109 55 Thousand RAF aircrew died in WW2 ,that's pretty much more than America's killed and injured in the entire Vietnam War,may they all rest in peace.
nobody mentioned it...what a great accuracy of the flak gunners...beside of that, the planes hit in the pilots partion...are not on the photos. war is nothing beautiful. nor amazing. lucky rats, that made it out. on all sides.
It is staggering to even think many of these planes even made it home. The build quality and supreme skill of the crew leaves me humbled and in awe.
Excellent post, thanks. My dad was with the AAC, went to N. Africa in 1944.
Many thanks to all the allied military forces who fought so hard to defend their countries so that those like myself born after the war would be able to enjoy the freedoms and live a great life in our countries. God Bless all those men and women who are still with us and those that gave their lives. Thank you from my heart.
I want to thank all the allied military for your service and to your countrys you help defend. My family and I have had a good life. I just hope and pray that my grand children will be able to say the same thing in 60 yrs from now. The world is a scary place at this time in history and hopefully our ppl can change it. May God bless you all who served.
Many WWII aircraft were a handful to fly when undamaged, these guys flew them home with important pieces ripped from them.
What gets me everytime I see how many of these made it home is the sheer guts and brute force it took to keep these aircraft in the air. No computers to help, often control sufraces wrecked and yet so many of these aircrew and their planes came home.
They came back home in such horrible conditions. Now they go down just by software.
Amazing that these planes made it home in that condition. What piloting skills and well made planes could do. Modern planes seem to go down with only a fraction of what we have just seen. Thanks to all those who served.
Very moving video it makes you realise the sacrifices made
It's plain to see the aircraft that lost crewmembers. It's all terribly sad because they were all young men with their lives ahead of them. I've met a few former servicemen. One was an RAF navigator with titanium knees as a result of a bombing mission over Germany. Another was the mother of a friend and the mother fought at Stalingrad.
Interesting video, thank you. My granddad helped repair these when they got back. IF they got back..
(a bit of feedback. Maybe give us a little longer to look at the picture before moving on to the next so we can take in more detail. But otherwise good job. :) )
Excellent video really showing the pounding various American (& a couple British) aircraft took from German FlaK (short for 'Flieger abwher Kanonen' = 'Flyer defense Cannons') Not nit picking but the B-17 at 3:12 , the damage here is not from FlaK but from a collision with a German Me-109, the propeller slicing through the fuselage, almost cutting the plane in half. This plane was very lucky to make it home, but then again, so were a lot of the other ones.
kolbpilot ...it was a wing not propeller.
Flak gunners shot at formations, not planes. Law of averages says that there will be some direct hits. Spreading shrapnel through the formation to hit multiple planes was the primary goal. A direct hit could easily be less effective than an air burst in the midst of the formation.
Good video, I watch it before I build my British planes models each time
Photos turned too quickly very annoying.
thats cool
explains why the eighth air force lost 26000 men. RKL
I could imagine that if these pics were in colour you would see some blood smears.
@JackDoogan72 Or stuck in a ball turret : )
true
You can patch up the plane, the men are not so lucky.
3:39 is Vietnam. USAF.
huh??
so many things wrong with the game, good thing its still beta
for example, i shoot at a b17, thing explodes...i was shooting through the tail gunner in FRB, the plane exploded before the gunner died -__-
Diese Musik😂😂 , da gehört was lustiges dazu
the English fought the Germans for nearly 2 years pretty much on there own the actual fighting I am talking about yet there is NO pictures of any RAF bombers and Fighters on your video sad to say the yanks did not win the war all by them selves but some-times they infer it.
fred wilson
wrong..about a minute in..an RAF plane...The Brits did a great job with what they had..Sadly this is without alot of whats now the UK.help..You have to admit it was the USA..and Russia turned the tide of European ww2..
Well, so where are your pictures? In the Royal Archives, of course. That's where you'll see them. In the US these pictures are almost in the public domain. Only a few years after the war ended, a documentary of 25 chapters called, "Victory At Sea" was available on our TV and I watched it regularly with my Dad. Many of those chapters show battle damage to planes; he would often tell me, "that's what I saw all the time." I suspect your military didn't put much time or effort into documenting what happened; we had Combat Cameramen whose job it was to take still pictures and 16 mm film of all that happened. Some of that, after passing the view of censors, was shown in movie theaters. People wanted to see what was happening overseas. They weren't war crazy; they just wanted to see as much as possible. It was part of keeping our civilians in touch with what was happening, and it helped stir on the effort to produce the weapons and materiel of waging the war. If you take that as winning the war by ourselves, I feel sorry for you. We were Allies and we won the war together. Did you expect to see films and pictures of Aussies and New Zealanders? Your attitude is in need of some adjustment. Sour grapes, I think it's called.
JosephK109 55 Thousand RAF aircrew died in WW2 ,that's pretty much more than America's killed and injured in the entire Vietnam War,may they all rest in peace.
I saw several brit planes in this vid.
Pretty much on their own ... apart from the rest of the British Empire.
american planes were made real well.
nobody mentioned it...what a great accuracy of the flak gunners...beside of that, the planes hit in the pilots partion...are not on the photos. war is nothing beautiful. nor amazing. lucky rats, that made it out. on all sides.
Your spinning transitions make me dizzy!
War thunder... why you so broke
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Get this fucking music out of here
Awful awful music.